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Environment Centre Forging Business Links
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Lancaster Environment Centre
Businesses from across the UK have expressed an interest in working with The Lancaster Environment Centre following an Environmental Technology networking event.
Around 70 companies contacted LEC's Enterprise and Business Partnerships Team at the UK's largest Environmental Technology exhibition - ET 2006 - held at the NEC, Birmingham.
It is the first year that LEC has exhibited at the event which is attended by companies such as ABB, Corus, Network Rail, N-Power, British Gypsum and Robert McBride.
The Enterprise & Business Partnerships (EBP) team champions the development of partnerships between LEC and commercial organisations as well as supporting commercialisation of LEC-based research.
EBP Business Development Officer Paul Tanner said: "We were really pleased with the response we received from companies expressing an interest in LEC, proposing new research projects and also enquiring about our Masters level teaching programmes."
Thu 22 June 2006
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Unborn babies 'practise' facial expressions in the womb
Researchers from Durham and Lancaster Universities suggest that a foetus's ability to show a "pain" facial expression is a developmental process which could potentially give doctors another index of the health of a foetus.
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Mon 17 June 2013
Lancaster leads the way in cyber security bursary scheme
Lancaster is one of four UK universities selected to take part in an 'industry first' sponsorship initiative encouraging students to take up Masters-level cyber security degrees.
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Mon 10 June 2013
Physicists gain insight into the UK's biggest killer
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the UK, accounting for a third of all fatalities through illnesses such as stroke and heart disease.
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Engineering students make finals of national start-up business competition
Engineering students Scott Nash, Daniel Richardson and Aaron Aboshio have won the northern heat of the Youth Entrepreneurs Scheme 'Engineering YES' competition for their spin-out renewable energy company Atlantis.
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